Meta is holding its annual Connect developers conference next week, and it’s going to showcase a bunch of expected and perhaps some surprise new VR and AR hardware — alongside what might be a heavy Meta AI showcase featuring the company’s newest Llama large language model and image generator in apps like WhatsApp.
Technology
Guitar Hero meets Earthbound in 2024’s strangest game
For a good chunk of my young-adult life, I was obsessed with the idea of creating my masterpiece. It’s not even that I wanted to create a great work of art with something to say; I felt I had to. My fear of death led me to believe that I needed to find a way to leave a lasting legacy behind, like the filmmakers and playwrights I revered at the time. While that feeling dissipated in later years, it reformed as a constant imposter syndrome that I still grapple with from time to time. There are moments where I feel that my writing or music isn’t good enough. At other times, I become bitter when a work I’m proud of doesn’t get the attention I wished it deserved. It’s a vicious ouroboros that I struggle to break out of.
This may sound like a strangely dramatic way to introduce Starstruck: Hands of Time. If you look at the new PC game’s Steam page, you’ll find what looks like a goofy adventure that takes notes from Earthbound, Guitar Hero, and Katamari Damacy. While that’s all true, the avant-garde adventure is hiding something much more grotesque below its bubbly surface. It’s a slow-bubbling anxiety attack, one that makes for one of 2024’s most unexpectedly vital games.
Spiraling out of orbit
Starstruck: Hands of Time begins in a playful fashion. An astronaut travels back to the past after the Earth of the future is overtaken by a mysterious mold. With the help of their cheerful robo companion, they head back to the past to find the source of this sludge. That takes them to an unassumingly small town inhabited by a happy-go-lucky kid named Edwin. It’s a normal, and very misleading, start to a wild four-hour odyssey that doesn’t go anywhere you’re expecting.
In those early moments, Starstruck sets the stage for a charming suburban adventure about Edwin, a young guitarist, trying to rise to stardom within his town. His first mission is to head to a local venue and play a gig with his pals. It’s a sweet start that immediately calls Earthbound to mind, a game that’s become an important touchstone for indie developers in recent years. It makes sense; Nintendo’s classic RPG is one of the few games that really feels like it understands young people and the personal struggles they face in everyday life. In its most direct reference, Starstruck’s characters are displayed as handmade clay models that call back to the physical figures used in Earthbound’s original marketing materials.
The more Starstruck sets up its story, the more light-hearted it becomes. When I get to the venue for my show, I’m introduced to an entire Guitar Hero-type rhythm game where I play along to songs (Starstruck is even compatible with some guitar controllers). It’s a messy minigame due to some hard-to-parse guitar riffs and sloppy controller integration, but it’s another callback that puts me into a time and place. I’m once again in the mindset of a young adult wondering when my life is going to begin in between Freebird solos.
Even then, Starstruck still hasn’t played all its gameplay cards. When Edwin has trouble getting into the venue, the astronaut observing them steps in to help by sending their hand down to Earth. In a minigame reminiscent of Katamari Damacy, I need to smash as much stuff as I can around town until I can summon a hammer to knock an opening into the fence surrounding the venue. It’s a bizarre visual, but another filled with a familiar youthful energy.
Things get much weirder from there.
Only near its halfway mark, after going through those minigames a few times and meeting a few friends, does Starstruck show its hands. Edwin and his friends begin to let their different anxieties slip. It turns out that the gang is suffering from different identity issues. One charter struggles with imposter syndrome over her music; another is desperate to be the center of attention and have his work celebrated. The more those feelings come out, the more the game itself corrupts.
There’s no way to easily describe what unfolds in Starstruck’s back half; you’ll really have to see it for yourself to fully soak in its overwhelming panic attack. A cute adventure veers into eldritch horror territory as each character succumbs to their anxieties. The cheery visuals give way to avant-garde eeriness, in a turn that calls Neon Genesis Evangelion’s striking midseason direction shift to mind. The deeper these characters get into their minds, wishing they could be anywhere else than where they are in life, the farther they spin away from Earth. There’s nothing up there but darkness. It slowly swallows the entire adventure like a snake eating its own tail.
If this all sounds like a baffling mess, it is at times. Starstruck takes some wild swings that don’t always feel like they cleanly connect. Its personal story takes several detours to showcase the history of art theft, delve into the history of the Roman empire, revisit the moon landing, and more. Its gameplay can similarly feel unfocused as it hops between ideas at a rapid-fire pace. It’s confounding, but effective too. Starstruck feels like a mental breakdown in motion; it’s a throbbing brain that can’t keep its focus as it spirals deeper and deeper into philosophical despair.
Despite how out there it is, Starstruck tells a down-to-earth story that’s still sticking with me days after rolling credits. I can see myself in its insecure heroes, so desperate to be the center of the universe that they’re left alone in the cold vacuum of space. Maybe we take how miraculous it is to be a face in a crowd here on this planet for granted.
Starstruck: Hands of Time is available now on PC.
Continue Reading
One of India’s largest startups, budget hotel company Oyo, has reached a deal to acquire G6 Hospitality, which operates Motel 6.
Oyo says it will pay Blackstone Real Estate $525 million in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition also includes the Studio 6 extended stay brand and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.
The Indian startup opened its first U.S. location in 2019 and now operates more than 320 hotels across 35 states. Oyo is dramatically expanding its North American footprint by acquiring Motel 6 — arguably the best-known budget hotel brand in the country, with a franchise network of around 1,500 locations in the United States and Canada.
“This acquisition is a significant milestone for a startup company like us to strengthen our international presence,” said Oyo International CEO Gautum Swaroop in a statement. He added that Motel 6 will “continue to operate as a separate entity.”
Founded in 2012, SoftBank-backed Oyo’s was valued at $10 billion in 2019, but has struggled in recent years due to pandemic-related challenges, as well as criticism over practices such as offering rooms from unavailable or unlicensed hotels.
Over the summer, TechCrunch reported on a new funding round that saw the company’s valuation fall to $2.5 billion — less than its total capital raised. (Oyo has denied reporting about its lowered valuation.)
Motel 6, meanwhile, was founded in 1962. It popularized the budget hotel concept (rooms originally cost $6 a night) and was eventually acquired by Blackstone for $1.9 billion in 2012.
And as Meta sunsets custom tools for AR filters, we could end up seeing a whole new set of developer tools designed to harness generative AI experiences. Perhaps it will all come together in Meta’s next big push into its alternative reality ideas (and namesake) in the metaverse, including significant Horizon Worlds updates.
However, the most anticipated products expected to appear during the conference are the successor to the Meta Quest 3 and perhaps updates to Meta and Raybans, which are very cool smart glasses. Hopefully, we’ll see the rumored “Orion” AR glasses, but we will need to catch the Connect keynote to find out.
When is Meta Connect 2024
Meta’s Connect developers conference this year starts on Wednesday, September 25th, 2024, and ends the next day on Thursday, September 26th. The conference will kick off with the Connect keynote, headlined by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, followed immediately by a Developer keynote at 2PM ET / 11AM PT. Meta has a full program schedule on the Connect site.
How to watch Meta Connect 2024
The Meta Connect keynote will stream live on the official Meta Connect website. If you’re a Quest headset user, you can also watch it on Horizon Worlds. Following the keynotes, you can participate in live developer sessions for deep dives on AI and mixed reality on Facebook.
What to expect at Meta Connect 2024
The most exciting thing about Meta is that it holds the keys to the closest thing to mainstream VR headsets with the Quest 2 and Quest 3. The latter, however, started at a price that was too high ($500 compared to the now $200 Quest 2) and did not have a very sharp AR video passthrough. Now we’re expecting a cheaper version, the Quest “3S,” that might sell for as cheap as $299.99, according to leaks.
Meta also has other new VR headsets in the pipeline, including a new Quest 4 for 2026 and something at the pro level designed for spatial computing internally dubbed “La Jolla” for 2027. Recent reports suggest plans for the latter might now be on ice, especially as Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro struggles to gain traction. We may not see these models specifically at Connect, but other models in the pipeline may show up.
Expect an update on the futuristic Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Connect too. The current glasses look clean and aren’t too chonky, but they’re ripe for an iterative update, even if no AR capabilities are coming. The glasses respond to your commands with Meta AI, so expect fresh chatbot assistant experiences on the way.
Meta is also working on new mixed reality glasses internally dubbed “Orion,” which we can expect at least a glimpse of. Snap recently let us wear its new AR Spectacles, but those are developer-only, and a former Snap engineer on the project called them “obviously bad.” Hopefully what we see of Orion is a lot more interesting.
Along with Meta’s VR strategy comes expectations of new software and experiences, including the future of games on Quest. Right now, there are questions about what Meta is doing for games: it’s shutting down the Ready at Dawn game studio that made immersive 3D games like Echo VR, while casual games like Wordle are rolling in. Meanwhile, Meta recently launched an app that lets you play console games on the headset through HDMI.
Technology
Hey Logitech, my mouse just died – but I loved it so much that I’m not complaining, I’m buying another one
Sometimes, you get your hands on a piece of hardware that just feels right. For me, that was the Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless – and now that mouse is reaching the end of its life, and while I won’t be hosting an actual Viking funeral for it, I genuinely am a little upset.
A fairly high-end gaming mouse with a comfortable ergonomic design and understated RGB lighting, the G502 Lightspeed Wireless has been my trusty desktop companion for more than five years, and is only just starting to show its age; specifically, the left-click switch is giving out, still registering most clicks but rendering click-and-drag operations almost impossible.
It’s fair to say that I’ve definitely put this mouse through the wringer over the past half-decade. Not only have I used it to put literally thousands of hours into all manner of games, but it’s also been my daily driver for work ever since the pandemic shifted me into working from home. It’s survived countless hours of frantic clicking, scrolling, and at-desk lunches (no, I’m not a ‘tidy desk, tidy mind’ sort of person).
It’s not an exaggeration to say that I love this mouse. It’s incredibly comfy under the hand thanks to the curved shape and thumb rest, and the underside features two magnetic panels that can be removed to add tiny metal weights to the interior – in other words, a little tweaking can create the perfect weight distribution for any user.
It’s also just a good gaming mouse in general: a 25,600 DPI sensor, long battery life, 1ms latency thanks to the proprietary Lightspeed USB dongle, and 11 remappable buttons all make it a stellar choice for any genre of PC game.
Consistency above all else
As heartbroken as I might be that my reliable gaming companion is beginning to fade from glory, there’s a definite silver lining here.
See, Logitech does something that I wish more PC hardware companies would do: a certain ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ approach to product design, meaning that I can still buy the exact same G502 Lightspeed Wireless mouse that I originally purchased over five years ago. Plenty of companies would’ve made the original product redundant in that time period, replacing it twice or three times over with new models (looking at you, Razer).
Hell, Logitech has been using the same design for its mainstream 1080p webcam – the Logitech C920 – for more than a decade, with only some minor generational improvements over the years. There’s a reason that cam still sits in the top spot of our best webcams ranking, is what I’m saying.
The G502 Lightspeed has been replaced in our best gaming mouse list by the newer, shinier Logitech G502 X Plus, but it’s still the same excellent mouse at heart – and gamers on a budget can always pick up the G502 Hero, which packs a lot of the great design and features found in my favorite mouse into a more wallet-friendly package.
But you can’t have too much of a good thing, so while I’m currently rocking a temporary replacement from NZXT, I can’t wait to take my paycheck to the Logitech G Store to pick up an identical replacement for my beloved G502 Lightspeed Wireless. There’s only one problem, and that’s the price: $99.99 / £139.99 (around AU$150, but it’s no longer available from Logitech in Australia). Why’s it so expensive in the UK, Logitech?
I guess I’ll be waiting for a Black Friday deal… unless the kind folks at Logitech read this and take pity on a poor tech journalist. Keep your fingers crossed for me, readers!
The back of Neil Harbisson’s head and his sound generator
Sideways Film
Cyborg: A documentary
Carey Born
First Born Films In UK cinemas on 20 September; US to be announced
Neil Harbisson studied music composition at Dartington College of Arts in the UK. He was born with achromatopsia, so is unable to perceive colour of any kind. Not one to ignore a challenge, in 2003 Harbisson recruited product designer Adam Montandon to build him a head-mounted rig that turns colours into musical notes that he can listen to via earphones.
Now in his 40s, Harbisson has evolved. The sound…
Host Samantha Dover is joined by gaming industry experts Brian Benway and Zach Emmanuel as they discuss the future of the gaming industry, including social media participation, game streaming, and the development of VR and AR technology. What are the opportunities for in-game advertising and sponsorship? What can brands do to address diversity in gaming and how can they provide a safe space for gamers? Listen now to find out more about games, gamers and the gaming industry!
The Transformers are back in theaters this week with Transformers One, the first animated movie in the franchise in nearly four decades. It’s also a big step up from many of the live-action Transformers movies, which were box office successes even when they weren’t very good films.
Now that Transformers One has arrived, we’ve decided to look back at all of the previous films to determine the best Transformers movies ever. And it shouldn’t be too surprising to see which movie landed on top and which one crashed to the bottom of the list.
9. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
It’s hard to know where to begin with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, considering that Michael Bay and the screenwriters have all kind of apologized for it over the years. There are some truly awful Transformers movies on this list, but none worse than this one. A lot of the responsibility has to come down to Bay and the screenwriters Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman. They’re the ones who couldn’t even write the human characters convincingly, much less the giant robots. Someone in this group also thought it would be hilarious for Devastator to seemingly have robot genitals.
But the big reason why Revenge of the Fallen has landed with a thud at the bottom of this list is because of the twins, Mudflap and Skids. Picture every Black stereotype ramped up to 11 and it still wouldn’t come close to conveying how these two characters came off as racist caricatures in the film. Bay has said that wasn’t his intention. Regardless, it’s almost impossible not to see those characters as some very ugly racial jokes. There’s a reason why the films never showed them again.
Watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Paramount+.
8. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
One of the problems that comes up in Bay’s Transformers films is that he and his collaborators keep trying to rewrite the mythology behind the franchise. But instead of streamlining things, they turned it into an incomprehensible mess. Transformers: The Last Knight tries to shoehorn Arthurian myth into the backstory, and it’s unconvincing at best.
It is actually kind of cool to see Optimus Prime temporarily go bad in this one as Nemesis Prime, even though the film’s actual villain, Quintessa (Gemma Chan), is pretty lifeless. This was Bay’s final Transformers movie and he tried to go out with a bang. But instead the film closes on a bizarre reveal that doesn’t make any sense. That’s one of the many reasons why the subsequent Transformers movies have basically ignored Bay’s continuity.
Watch Transformers: The Last Knight on Paramount+.
7. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
For his fourth movie in the franchise, Michael Bay kind of did a soft reset with Transformers: Age of Extinction. After Dark of the Moon, all Transformers on Earth are hunted by armed forces, and the Autobots’ human allies are gone. In their place, Bay introduces inventor Cade Yeager, as unconvincingly played by the alleged human Mark Wahlberg.
The story is all over the place, as another Transformer, Lockdown, comes to Earth to capture the survivors while the franchise’s most consistent villain, Megatron, becomes Galvatron in perhaps the most boring way ever. The thing that got fans excited about the film was the introduction of the Dinobots. But in true Bay fashion, he spoiled the reveal of Optimus riding a Dinobot in the trailer and poster, and then didn’t depict the Dinobots with any personality at all.
Watch Transformers: Age of Extinction on Paramount+.
6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
The idea behind Transformers: Dark of the Moon is that everything we knew about the moon landing was a lie, and no less than the real Buzz Aldrin (seriously, it really is him) confirms that something powerful from the Transformers’ home world, Cybertron, was on the moon. Leonard Nimoy also makes his return to the franchise as the voice of Sentinel Prime, and he promptly betrays the Autobots in favor of a full-scale Decepticon invasion of Earth.
Unfortunately, you won’t really care about the human characters, and this is the last time that Shia LaBeouf appeared as the Autobots’ friend and ally, Sam Witwicky. The subsequent films don’t even really bother to directly mention what happened to him.
Watch Transformers: Dark of the Moon on Paramount+.
5. Transformers (2007)
Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie was his best one, but it’s far from the pinnacle of the franchise. There are parts of this movie that work really well, especially the more serious tone it has at times before the Transformers reveal themselves. And then it suddenly gets whacky as Jazz can’t help but breakdance while introducing himself.
One of the reasons why this film works better than Bay’s sequels is that it was still loosely based on the comics and animated series that came before it. The action is often incomprehensible when the Autobots and Decepticons are fighting each other, but they look good when standing still. Out of all of Bay’s Transformers movies, this might be the only one with any heart as Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) befriends Bumblebee and tries to court Mikaela Banes, as played by Megan Fox in her first major starring role.
Watch Transformers on Paramount+.
4. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
The most recent Transformers live-action movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, seems to have learned the lesson that was never absorbed by Bay’s films. Namely that we only care about the bond between the human characters and the Transformers when we’re given a reason to care. The film goes out of its way to establish Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) as a guy who is just trying to do right by his family before he stumbles upon the Autobots. Mirage (Pete Davidson) makes some really endearing attempts to befriend Noah, while Optimus Prime is disdainful of humanity.
The film doesn’t quite get around to convincingly justifying Elena Wallace (Dominique Fishback) as the second human sidekick of the Autobots. But the debut of the Maximals clicked in a way that the Dinobots didn’t largely because they got to keep their personalities intact. This film also did a much better job at teasing the ultimate villain, Unicron, than Bay did in The Last Knight.
Watch Transformers: Rise of the Beasts on Paramount+.
3. Bumblebee (2018)
Bumblebee is the gold standard of live-action Transformers movies, and it all comes down to the script and the cast. Setting this movie in the ’80s was the right call, and Hailee Steinfeld is terrific as Charlie Watson, a teenager who deals with her grief for her late father by putting together an old damaged car that turns out to be Bumblebee. Compare the bond that Charlie and Bumblebee form to the superficial connection that Bumblebee had to Sam in the previous films. This one succeeds because Steinfeld convincingly emotes when sharing the scene with a robot who isn’t really there.
The highlight of the film is the prologue on Cybertron, where the Autobots and the Decepticons have never looked better. John Cena also stars in this film as Jack Burns, a federal agent who distrusts both Bumblebee and the Decepticons who came to Earth to find and destroy him. This is an exciting and heartfelt film, which is exactly what it needed to be as the first reboot for the live-action movies.
Watch Bumblebee on Paramount+.
2. Transformers One (2024)
The stroke of genius behind Transformers One is that it didn’t need to be in live action to tell the story of Optimus Prime and Megatron before they were mortal enemies. Instead, Orion Pax (Furiosa‘s Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Eternals star Brian Tyree Henry) are like brothers at the beginning of this film, even if they’re not always on the same page.
This is a re-imagining of the previous origin stories used in other Transformers mediums like comics, TV shows, and video games. But what really makes it shine is the way that it gives Orion and D-16 distinct points of view throughout the movie. The script makes us understand where both of them are coming from before their bond is irreparably broken by the choices they have to make.
Transformers One is now playing in theaters.
1. The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The Transformers: The Movie may be the most magnificent toy commercial ever made. The creative team behind the original Transformers animated series used the film to usher out the first set of characters while introducing all-new heroes and villains that were coming to toy stores shortly thereafter. The filmmakers weren’t trying to make a classic, but this is by far the best of the Transformers movies because it has legitimate emotional stakes as well as an apocalyptic threat in the form of Unicron.
The late Orson Welles may not have thought much about his final role, but even in his weakened state Welles’ voice conveyed Unicron’s sense of menace and grandeur. Leonard Nimoy also lent his voice to the upgraded form of Megatron, who was renamed and remade as Galvatron in one of the film’s most visually arresting scenes. But perhaps the most impressive aspect of the film’s animation are the small details, especially when Unicron eats his first world during the opening minutes. It’s just as astonishing as any anime from the era, and The Transformers: The Movie holds up exceedingly well after nearly four decades. It may be the nostalgia pick, but this is still the Transformers film to beat.
The Transformers: The Movie is not available to stream.
-
News3 days agoYou’re a Hypocrite, And So Am I
-
Sport2 days agoJoshua vs Dubois: Chris Eubank Jr says ‘AJ’ could beat Tyson Fury and any other heavyweight in the world
-
Science & Environment2 days ago‘Running of the bulls’ festival crowds move like charged particles
-
Science & Environment3 days agoHow to unsnarl a tangle of threads, according to physics
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoDorsey’s ‘marketplace of algorithms’ could fix social media… so why hasn’t it?
-
News2 days ago
Israel strikes Lebanese targets as Hizbollah chief warns of ‘red lines’ crossed
-
Science & Environment2 days agoQuantum ‘supersolid’ matter stirred using magnets
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoEthereum is a 'contrarian bet' into 2025, says Bitwise exec
-
Science & Environment2 days agoHyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materials known to science
-
Science & Environment2 days agoSunlight-trapping device can generate temperatures over 1000°C
-
Science & Environment3 days agoHow to wrap your mind around the real multiverse
-
Science & Environment2 days agoPhysicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoBitcoin miners steamrolled after electricity thefts, exchange ‘closure’ scam: Asia Express
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoCardano founder to meet Argentina president Javier Milei
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoLow users, sex predators kill Korean metaverses, 3AC sues Terra: Asia Express
-
Science & Environment3 days agoWhy this is a golden age for life to thrive across the universe
-
Sport2 days agoUFC Edmonton fight card revealed, including Brandon Moreno vs. Amir Albazi headliner
-
Technology2 days agoiPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Review: Depth and Reach
-
Science & Environment3 days agoMaxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer
-
Science & Environment2 days agoQuantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device
-
Science & Environment2 days agoHow one theory ties together everything we know about the universe
-
Science & Environment3 days agoTime travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment
-
Technology3 days agoWould-be reality TV contestants ‘not looking real’
-
Health & fitness3 days agoThe secret to a six pack – and how to keep your washboard abs in 2022
-
Science & Environment3 days agoITER: Is the world’s biggest fusion experiment dead after new delay to 2035?
-
Science & Environment3 days agoLiquid crystals could improve quantum communication devices
-
Science & Environment3 days agoQuantum time travel: The experiment to ‘send a particle into the past’
-
Science & Environment2 days agoNuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoCertiK Ventures discloses $45M investment plan to boost Web3
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoDZ Bank partners with Boerse Stuttgart for crypto trading
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoRedStone integrates first oracle price feeds on TON blockchain
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoBitcoin bulls target $64K BTC price hurdle as US stocks eye new record
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoSEC asks court for four months to produce documents for Coinbase
-
CryptoCurrency2 days ago‘No matter how bad it gets, there’s a lot going on with NFTs’: 24 Hours of Art, NFT Creator
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoBlockdaemon mulls 2026 IPO: Report
-
Business2 days ago
How Labour donor’s largesse tarnished government’s squeaky clean image
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoCoinbase’s cbBTC surges to third-largest wrapped BTC token in just one week
-
News2 days agoChurch same-sex split affecting bishop appointments
-
Politics4 days agoTrump says he will meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week
-
Science & Environment2 days agoHow to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality
-
Technology4 days agoCan technology fix the ‘broken’ concert ticketing system?
-
News5 days agoDid the Pandemic Break Our Brains?
-
Science & Environment2 days agoA new kind of experiment at the Large Hadron Collider could unravel quantum reality
-
Politics2 days agoLabour MP urges UK government to nationalise Grangemouth refinery
-
Science & Environment2 days agoHow Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the universe together
-
News2 days agoBrian Tyree Henry on voicing young Megatron, his love for villain roles
-
Science & Environment2 days agoBeing in two places at once could make a quantum battery charge faster
-
CryptoCurrency2 days ago2 auditors miss $27M Penpie flaw, Pythia’s ‘claim rewards’ bug: Crypto-Sec
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoJourneys: Robby Yung on Animoca’s Web3 investments, TON and the Mocaverse
-
CryptoCurrency2 days ago
$12.1M fraud suspect with ‘new face’ arrested, crypto scam boiler rooms busted: Asia Express
-
CryptoCurrency2 days ago‘Everything feels like it’s going to shit’: Peter McCormack reveals new podcast
-
Science & Environment2 days agoA single atom could drive a piston in a quantum engine
-
Science & Environment2 days agoTiny magnet could help measure gravity on the quantum scale
-
Science & Environment2 days agoUK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project
-
Science & Environment2 days agoA tale of two mysteries: ghostly neutrinos and the proton decay puzzle
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoDecentraland X account hacked, phishing scam targets MANA airdrop
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoCZ and Binance face new lawsuit, RFK Jr suspends campaign, and more: Hodler’s Digest Aug. 18 – 24
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoBeat crypto airdrop bots, Illuvium’s new features coming, PGA Tour Rise: Web3 Gamer
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoMemecoins not the ‘right move’ for celebs, but DApps might be — Skale Labs CMO
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoTelegram bot Banana Gun’s users drained of over $1.9M
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoVonMises bought 60 CryptoPunks in a month before the price spiked: NFT Collector
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoVitalik tells Ethereum L2s ‘Stage 1 or GTFO’ — Who makes the cut?
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoEthereum falls to new 42-month low vs. Bitcoin — Bottom or more pain ahead?
-
Technology2 days agoFivetran targets data security by adding Hybrid Deployment
-
Science & Environment3 days agoElon Musk’s SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station
-
Money3 days agoWhat estate agents get up to in your home – and how they’re being caught
-
Technology4 days ago‘The dark web in your pocket’
-
Business4 days agoGuardian in talks to sell world’s oldest Sunday paper
-
News2 days ago
Freed Between the Lines: Banned Books Week
-
MMA2 days agoUFC’s Cory Sandhagen says Deiveson Figueiredo turned down fight offer
-
MMA2 days agoDiego Lopes declines Movsar Evloev’s request to step in at UFC 307
-
Football2 days agoNiamh Charles: Chelsea defender has successful shoulder surgery
-
Football2 days agoSlot's midfield tweak key to Liverpool victory in Milan
-
Science & Environment2 days agoThe physicist searching for quantum gravity in gravitational rainbows
-
Fashion Models2 days agoMiranda Kerr nude
-
Fashion Models2 days ago“Playmate of the Year” magazine covers of Playboy from 1971–1980
-
Politics4 days agoTrump Media breached ARC Global share agreement, judge rules
-
Health & fitness3 days ago11 reasons why you should stop your fizzy drink habit in 2022
-
Science & Environment2 days agoOdd quantum property may let us chill things closer to absolute zero
-
Science & Environment2 days agoRethinking space and time could let us do away with dark matter
-
News3 days ago▶️ Media Bias: How They Spin Attack on Hezbollah and Ignore the Reality
-
Science & Environment3 days agoLaser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass and charge
-
Science & Environment3 days agoAre space and time illusions of entanglement? The answer could lie in black holes
-
Science & Environment3 days agoQuantum to cosmos: Why scale is vital to our understanding of reality
-
News4 days agoItaly braces for rain as 21 killed in Europe floods
-
Business4 days ago
Glasgow to host scaled-back Commonwealth Games in 2026
-
Science & Environment3 days agoNegative temperature: Atoms beyond absolute zero may be a new form of matter
-
Science & Environment3 days agoHow materials that rewind light can test physics’ most extreme ideas
-
Science & Environment3 days agoTime may be an illusion created by quantum entanglement
-
Science & Environment3 days agoHow the weird and powerful pull of black holes made me a physicist
-
Science & Environment2 days agoX-ray laser fires most powerful pulse ever recorded
-
Science & Environment2 days agoHow indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity
-
Science & Environment2 days agoDoughnut-shaped swirls of laser light can be used to transmit images
-
Science & Environment2 days agoThe galactic anomalies hinting dark matter is weirder than we thought
-
Politics4 days agoTory peer ‘regrets’ anti-immigration rhetoric ahead of riots
-
Science & Environment2 days agoWe may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoArthur Hayes’ ‘sub $50K’ Bitcoin call, Mt. Gox CEO’s new exchange, and more: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 1 – 7
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoTreason in Taiwan paid in Tether, East’s crypto exchange resurgence: Asia Express
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoLeaked Chainalysis video suggests Monero transactions may be traceable
-
CryptoCurrency2 days agoLouisiana takes first crypto payment over Bitcoin Lightning
You must be logged in to post a comment Login